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The Monmouth Railway, also known as the Monmouth Tramroad, was a horse-drawn railway line which ran for approximately between Monmouth and Coleford, in Gloucestershire. It was opened in 1812 and closed in the 1870s. ==History== The Monmouth Railway Company obtained an Act of Parliament on 24 May 1810 for making a railway or tramroad from Howler Slade, in the Forest of Dean to a terminus at May Hill, near Monmouth. The Act specifically allowed for the conveyance of passengers, and is thought to be the first to have done so, although there is no evidence that passengers were carried on a regular basis. It was built as a plateway, horse-drawn wagons with plain wheels running on L-section flanged cast-iron rails. The principal freight carried to Monmouth was coal, clay and lime. The line was opened in 1812. 〔(The Railways of Monmouth )〕 The Monmouth Railway was overtaken by railways however because of the amount of money invested in the tram it was Monmouth's only line until 1857 in spite of the furious complaints from the public about the 'abominable tram way'.〔Kissack K, Monmouth: The Making of a County Town, 1975, phillimore & co. LTD, London〕 In 1861, the Coleford, Monmouth, Usk and Pontypool Railway, which was the first standard-gauge railway to reach Monmouth in 1857, was extended across the River Wye to meet the Monmouth Railway at Wyesham Wharf, where a transshipment point was set up. 〔(The Coleford Branch )〕 The arrival of this railway in Monmouth however, along with the Ross and Monmouth Railway in 1873 and the Wye Valley Railway at Redbrook in 1876, meant that the tramroad soon became redundant. The Coleford Railway, a standard gauge railway line was largely built over the route of the tramroad. It was opened on 1 September 1883 but closed on 1 January 1917. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Monmouth Railway」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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